NARCOTIC DRUGS

Narcotic Drugs

Narcotic Drugs

In the world today narcotic drugs are looked at as a serious crime, even though most abused drugs are taking innocent lives. (druglibrary.org) The majority of the narcotic drugs in this country are legal and most anyone can get them. As a person who has been there and done that, I can easily say that getting any kind of drug is fairly simple in today's society. Many high school teens in this day and age will try drugs either legal or illegal. Also, many will become frequent users.

About eighty-five million Americans over the age of twelve have tried marijuana. About half of those 85 million are frequent users of the drug. Marijuana is the most used illegal drug in the United States; it is also California's largest cash crop. The average age between 12 to 17 years old to try marijuana for the first time was 14 years old. Surveys held throughout the U.S. for students, grades 8 to 12 shows that 23% of 8th graders have tried marijuana and are frequent users by 10th grade, however, 50% of 12th graders have tried and 24% are still frequent users. Some effects of marijuana usage are an enhanced cancer risk, an increase of testosterone levels in women, and psychological dependence of the drug.

A popular pair of "club drugs" is ecstasy and methamphetamine (also know as speed or meth). These two drugs are made illegally in homemade meth or acid labs. Both drugs speed up your heart rate and usually result in stroke or heart attacks. 12.8 million Americans ages 12 and up have been reported to use either drug. Sometimes these drugs can make you hallucinate heavily like the drug LSD because you can never know what is exactly in the drug. The high of these drugs can last ...